donna levitt is here. president o'brien: any questions? i do, but i wanted to open the floor first. no? ok. the employee in question, what happens to that money today? >> one of the options that is available is that the office of labor standards enforcement can use those funds for its outreach activities to go to educate the various contractors and subcontractors about the labor enforcement rules and prevailing wages and so forth. perhaps ms. levitt can also address that. >> the changes, after searching for any employees that are due money, if we cannot find them after two years, that money goes to the city for the enforcement of the prevailing wage, and this change changes it from two years to three years, consistent with state law. president o'brien: ok, thank you. no further questions? sorry. commissioner riley? commissioner yee riley: this streamlines the process and also gives the comptroller more flexibility. the administrative law judge and the attorney. but what was it before, before the change? who was the hearing officer? what was the requirement? >> it would depend on the

we have presentations by donna levitt, office of labor standards enforcement, and monique zmuda, controller's office. >> i and the deputy comptroller. the comptroller's office, and we have been working with the city attorney as well as with the office of labor standards to recommend these amendments that are before you today. the point of the amendments is to facilitate the appeals process for both the department of labor standards as well as for the appellant. the procedures are also recommended to clarify the appeals process, and, hopefully, we will expedite the appeals process and also will encourage settlement and agreement of us sitting issues when there is opportunity to agree. and, therefore, i would just like to walk you very quickly through some of the changes. there are not a lot of them, but we do hope they will expedite the appeals process. nearly all of the changes that you have in the legislation in front of you are located between pages 8 and 12 of the legislation, so the wording that is undermined or crossed out represents the amendment to the legislation, in starting on page

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now back to russia denise levitt if the legendary roy jones jr in saturday's bout right here in moscow russia's boxer not south american in the design moments of the fights maintaining his rep as one of the world's surface cruiserweights robert more than young has more. coolly and thank you. he might be forty two and was his best but he soon rated as being one of the greatest players of all time a total champ and over four different weights. were as ever jewels in the drugs. champ and still being loudly in the books in the world. this will it takes to face one of the most deadliest punchers in the division russia's pride in its lead with the sole voice little left helping claim sixteen moto he's twenty one wins playing. in most skilled with no totals a state level to enter the point as the host favorites but jones proclaimed proved that he skipped some of the sparkle of the withering career suits continuous and skeptical or it turns even look to have there in st paul but he's young rival but live with it hard he's in his youth and ball work to phone the former champions and keep him on

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host: matthew levitt is our guest.as the former deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis. thanks for being here. we wanted you to talk to us about terrorist funding and what the u.s. does to try to intercept and that money. where does osama bin laden get the money that kept him living relatively comfortable in pakistan? guest: that is the $64,000 question, maybe more, and excuse the pun. the information seized iare those links. names, bank accounts, names of couriers, this type of thing. it goes to boston the myth that terrorism is expensive. the cost of maintaining safe houses and bribing people, which osama bin laden's people had to do, paying for groceries, the family salary, that can be a lot of money. how do we do this? we do two things. we try to stem the flow of funds. we make it more difficult for them to transfer and blonder and access that money, because the bottom line is you will never drain the swamp. there are always ways to make money legally or illegally. sometimes, we will let those fun

how long does it take congress when it was the first in a debt we just keep raising your levitt and raising year limit and raising your loan and the federal government and like you with your visa card, you do reach a limit that the federal government never does. they always have to take under the debt and to pay it off. he wanted to make sure foreign states that we can get in times of war but it is strange, hamilton and jefferson greatly agreed government had to be closely watched for tierney but the differences jefferson feared a tyranny of the leads the hamilton of fear -- feared the majority that people would get hold of the public treasury. but then new-line to the wealthy dallas of they would not be beholden to the government so they would come to the aid of government. so if they get in trouble the rich would. but then you get a panic that threatens to totally destroy the united states. we're bankrupt and president grover cleveland the last good democrat that believes in following the constitution as far as i can tell, who shows up? and jpmorgan. the most wealthy banker was powerful i

now all that is levitt is a windy grass land -- all that is left is a windy grass land that could be ignited by fireworks. fire officials respond it's already illegal to use safe and sane fireworks in vacant lots and they're more worried about the illegal variety. >>> with summer around the corner a new warning about sun screen. researchers say more than half of products on the store shelves don't protect your skin from the cancer-causing ultraviolet rays. the watchdog group says many of the sun bloc contain hazardous ingredients. they recommend avoiding high s.p.f. sun screens because they offer false sense of protection. for a link of the good sun screens go to abc7news.com and click on see it on tv. >>> 5:57 now. just ahead on abc7 news at 6:00 a.m. -- the east bay employer that is about to cut more than 500 jobs. >> plus, was the cure more dangerous than the illness? the bay area holistic healer that is facing charges of poisoning his patients. >> i'm terry mcsweeney life at san francisco general hospital. new developments this morning in the stir of bryan stow. he is still here

later, former treasury department official matthew levitt discusses how al qaeda and other terrorist organizations are financed. "washington journal" each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. to and follow the house and senate when you want. c-span comprehensive resource on congress, the congressional crapo, makes it easy to find information about your elected officials, with daily schedules, a list of members, each day's committee hearings, plus the deal of house and senate sessions and progress of bills and notes. if congressional conical at c- span.org/congress. >> no a senate panel looks at the u.s. withdrawal plan and the overall strategy in afghanistan. and number of senators argued against a hasty exit from the country following the death of osama bin laden. the senate foreign relations committee is chaired by john kerry. this is two hours and 20 minutes. >> the hearing will come to order. my apologies to college, witnesses, and the audience alike for starting a little late. we have some business before the finance committee that i had to attend to. we appreciate everybody's patience

host: matthew levitt with the washington institute for near east policy where he is the director of counterterrorism and intelligence. thank you for joining us this morning. we are going to now to the house floor where representatives are getting in session for morning speeches. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] pursuant to the order of the house of january 5, 2011, the chair will now recognize members from the list submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties, each party limited to one hour, and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. thompson, for two minutes. mr. thompson: thank you, madam speaker. yesterday i joined members of the pennsylvania state legislature, gun owners, sportsmen, and president of the n.r.a. as the president -- at the pennsylvania state capitol

and then matthew levitt discusses how al qaeda and other terrorist organizations are financed.washington journal," each more than at k eastern. >> tomorrow, congressman mike rorges will talk about the raid on the osama bin laden compound last week and the upcoming 10th have i ever of the september 11 terrorist attacks. live coverage at 8:00 eastern on use. later on c-span3, the house will begin work on defense legislation for 2012. it gets underway at 10:00 eastern. now, a discussion on japanese foreign policy. we will hear about shifts in japan's attitudes toward the u.s. and china. this conference was hosted by george washington university last month. it's an hour. we have got a number of people from the government over here, very, very busy people. the fact that they are joining us, i am going to assume it means they think our project is really important and they didn't want to miss it. his full bio is in the folder that you have got. he came to his present job from the stanley foundation, where he was running the policy analysis and dialogue and the asia programs in the fou